In this section we summarize the white paper [1]}.
The AdS/CFT correspondence relates strongly coupled quantum systems to gravity. Thermal systems are related to spacetimes with black holes, or black branes.
This can be used to learn about strongly interacting systems, since one can perform computations relatively easily in the gravity description. This has led to some interesting general lessons, including bounds on transport [2]}, a bound on chaos [3]}, hydrodynamics with anomalies [4]}, [5]}, [6]}, etc. In some of these cases, the gravity analysis inspired conjectures which were later proven in general, without relying on gravity. The gravity theory served as a useful “laboratory” to make the more general discovery.
